A University of South Carolina student was shot and killed as he apparently tried to enter the wrong home on his off-campus street early on Saturday, police said.

Nicholas Anthony Donofrio, 20, of Connecticut, was dead by the time police responded to reports of a home burglary and shooting, according to a Columbia Police Department news release. Officers found his body on a front porch around 2 a.m., and Donofrio had a gunshot wound to his upper body, the release said.

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    Just imagine if they were a robber though. Clearly we all need to own guns just in case that happens!!

    • BaroqueInMind
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      -151 year ago

      I know you are being sarcastic, but this is a reality in remote rural areas where cops don’t respond immediately.

      • @MataVatnik
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        91 year ago

        If you’re close enough to shoot, you’re close enough to talk to the person you’re shooting. It’s pretty easy to gage what a person’s intentions are that way.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        You mean the remote rural areas where the chance of being violently assaulted in your own home by a stranger are at their lowest?

        Good thing America sells guns to neo-nazis and domestic abusers with minimal requirements for safe handling and storage then. Otherwise some poor farmer might have their iPad stolen.

        • BaroqueInMind
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          01 year ago

          That’s a fair counterpoint and I’m not going to dispute that because I agree with you. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s not up for debate that the U.S. Constitution identifies and protects firearm ownership.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        71 year ago

        But what if some hypothetical that doesn’t apply to this situation at all, huh? Checkmate, lib…